Appeal No. 96-0529
Application 07/981,207
Claims 16 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 102(b) as anticipated by Tanaka.
Claims 6 through 9 and 13 through 19 stand rejected under 35 U.S.C. 103 as unpatentable over
Johnson and Tanaka.
Reference is made to the briefs and answer for the respective positions of appellant and the
examiner.
OPINION
We reverse.
While we appreciate the examiner’s efforts in painstakingly setting forth, in the examiner’s view,
the specific correspondence of the claimed elements and those taught by the applied references, we do
not agree with the examiner’s interpretation of the references.
More particularly, each and every claim on appeal recites, and requires, in one form or another,
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